Category Archives: Steyning

Ealthy Eating Evening

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Pizza and Pop
As part of Children’s Hospice Week, the Steyning Friends of Chestnut Tree House are holding a pizza and pop event on Sunday, June 22nd, at Steyning Cricket Club from 5:00pm until 10:00pm. There will be home-made, wood-fired pizzas served up with live music, games, pottery painting, face painting and a raffle. Tickets are £3 and under 16s go free. They are available from The Steyning Bookshop, or on 01903 812062.

Update 9th July: the Shoreham Herald reports that the event raised £800.

Botany surveys

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Wild flowers on chalk grassland

Wild flowers on chalk grassland

From 10:00am–12:30pm on Friday 13th June and 6:00–8:30pm on Thursday 17th July. Help with an ongoing monitoring project by getting involved in a botany survey of the chalk grassland outside Steyning. All levels of experience welcomed, including beginners at wild flower identification. Bring a packed meal if you want to stay on for a picnic after the survey. Meet at the log pile on the Rifle Range, Steyning [Map Ref: TQ 168,113]. Free event.

Please contact Petra Billings via petra.billings@btopenworld.com for further details.

Two choral concerts

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Kaleidoscope Singers
Cantatrice will perform on Friday, May 30th, at the Steyning Centre, 12:15pm–1:00pm, while Kaleidoscope Singers perform on Thursday, June 5th, at Christ the King Catholic Church, Penlands, Steyning, 8:00pm–9:00pm. The evening concert will feature madrigals, sacred music and Stephen Foster arrangements, and includes a string ensemble and Hannah Corcoran on saxophone. More details here.

Events for children

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Events for children

Steyning Grammar events

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Steyning Grammar School
Steyning Grammar will be celebrating 400 years of existence at the end of May with a variety of events including:

  • 24th May: the opening of the Church Street School and grounds to the public with archive material relating to the school’s history on display;
  • 24th-25th May: three performances each day of ‘Carvings, Corridors and Timbres’, a musical about the school, at the Church Street site;
  • 26th–28th May: a heritage quilt will be on display in the Church of St Andrew and St Cuthman;
  • 29th May: Janet Pennington will give a talk on ‘Steyning Grammar School, 400 Years of Education’ at 2:00pm in Bolton House;
  • Until 31st August 2014: an exhibition titled ‘The Scholar’s Tale — 400 Years of Schooling in Steyning’ at Steyning Museum.

Further details about these and other events can be found here.